Otis Elem School

Otis Elem School operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Chicago, Illinois, one of the schools within Chicago Public Schools Dist 299. Current enrollment sits at 356 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Chicago Public Schools Dist 299 runs 622 schools in total, collectively educating 324,396 students. Otis Elem School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Otis Elem School lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 29% Black, 5% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.9:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Otis Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cook County (around 66%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Otis Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 14.1%, a residual of -9.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Cook County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which Otis Elem School is one.

The closest other public school is Noble St Chtr Rauner College Prep, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Otis Elem School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

Otis Elem School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Otis Elem School has shrank 20%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 356 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 71% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Otis Elem School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.